Wit and Humor of America, The Vol 03

<h2><SPAN name="MAXIOMS" id="MAXIOMS"></SPAN>MAXIOMS</h2> <h3>BY CAROLYN WELLS</h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Reward is its own virtue.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The wages of sin is alimony.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Money makes the mayor go.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A penny saved spoils the broth.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of two evils, choose the prettier.<br/></span> <span class="i0">There's no fool like an old maid.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Make love while the moon shines.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Where there's a won't there's a way.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A word to the wise is a dangerous thing.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A living gale is better than a dead calm.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A fool and his money corrupt good manners.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A word in the hand is worth two in the ear.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A man is known by the love-letters he keeps.<br/></span> <span class="i0">A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Whosoever thy hands find to do, do with thy might.<br/></span> <span class="i0">It's a wise child who knows less than his own father.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Never put off till to-morrow what you can wear to-night.<br/></span> <span class="i0">He who loves and runs away, may live to love another day.<br/></span> <span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_425" id="Page_425"></SPAN></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />